Quotes by Robin Hobb

“You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much h...”

“Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.”

“Dragons don't bother with introductions.”

“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”

“I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.”

“But in my heart, when I said my king, I meant Verity.”

“A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead tree...”

“That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.”

“And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.”

“When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimesSometimes you cant believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes youre afraid to believe it...”

“Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.”

“Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.”

“I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.”

“He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!”

“I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.”

“There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.”

“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.”

“Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. ...”

“I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life rain...”

“But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.”